Re: echo but return false in make (was: Logfiles from build)

2011-06-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:06:01PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Just wait a few days until I've some spare time available to help > you with this, will you? Certainly! Thank you for your interest; I know that you know far more than me about this. Please also take a look at two recent git comm

Re: echo but return false in make (was: Logfiles from build)

2011-06-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:35:19PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote: > > >Again, on the shell, it would be something like this: > > > make ...blah... || echo "build failed" && tail logfile > > >but there might be a nicer way to do it. > > > > but then when blah fails, make will not stop, since the re

Re: echo but return false in make (was: Logfiles from build)

2011-06-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:35:19PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:18:55PM -0400, Julien Rioux wrote: > > On 17/06/2011 2:11 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > > > make ...blah... || echo "build failed" && tail logfile > > > > but then when blah fails, make will not stop, sin

echo but return false in make (was: Logfiles from build)

2011-06-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:18:55PM -0400, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 17/06/2011 2:11 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > >Again, on the shell, it would be something like this: > > make ...blah... || echo "build failed" && tail logfile > >but there might be a nicer way to do it. > > but then when blah fail